Sugar Stocks May Rot Your Portfolio, Too

The anti-sugar trend is growing. Why this may eventually produce "clear winners and losers" for investors.

A wildly popular article on WSJ.com this month argues that dietary fat has been wrongly vilified for decades, and that sugar and carbohydrates deserve the blame for rampant obesity, Type 2 diabetes and perhaps even heart disease. Its author, Nina Teicholz, released a book on the subject this week. This coincides with Fed Up, an anti-sugar documentary narrated by Katie Couric, which has opened in a handful of theaters and will spread to more in coming weeks.